The design mindset can help with the world’s wicked problems. Worldchanging is one place that is tackling the same issues, and helps keep us aware of these deeply meaningful challenges that transcend the interesting, but less globally critical impacts of corporate strategy and product design. Now the folks at Worldchanging have brought out a profoundly […]

I encountered the Republic of Tea last month, picking up a used copy of the founders’ book, which helped launch the brand by showing the correspondence back and forth between Mel and Patricia Ziegler (founders of Banana Republic) and Bill Rosenzweig, a young entrepreneur who became TROT’s first CEO. Because the book is mostly correspondence, […]

This summary article from C.K. Prahalad is a quick introduction to his ideas in his book The Future of Competition.
Beyond b-school thinking on codesign, I need to take the time to compare with Liz Sanders style participatory design, like the things outlined in this paper: Contextmapping: experiences from practice (PDF). Interesting mashup potential here…

Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind has a lot in common with design thinking. I read it the week it came out, put it down, and haven’t thought a lot about it since…it’s in a preaching-to-the-converted conundrum, where the anecdotes were often familiar. While the title is A Whole New Mind, with a basic premise […]